Toy gun.



A. W. HAMAKBR.

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Application filed November 12, 1912. Serial No. 730,912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AARON Wooo HAMA- KER, a citizen of the-United States, and a resident of New York, county and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Toy Guns, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

This invention relates to a class of devices adapted to be used for amusement purposes.

My invention has for its object primarily to provide a toy gun,'-or device designed-to be used. especially in encouraging the destruction'of flies by children, or other persons as well as interesting and afi'ording amusement at the same time, and which is preferably made of a form in imitation of a pistol, or gun wherein is employed an elastic element, or band adapted to be projected in a manner so as to strike the object, or said element may be, used for gropelling a rod, or'other suitable article, i desired.

Another object of the invention is to provide a form of trigger having a member which when'the trigger is pulled will be swung in an arc to release the elastic element so as to be projected, and said trigger isof a form so as to be pivotally held whereby it will return by reason of its own wei ht to its normal POSltlOIl. when released aiter the gun is shot-ofi; and a further object of the, invention is to rovide a simple and.

eficient form or toy w ich is susceptible of being made in various sizes and shapes.

A practical embodiment of the invention is re resented in the accompanying drawing ormin a art of this specification in which simil ar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views, the said inventionbeing more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the appended claims. In the drawing, Figure l is a side view, partly in section, of one form of the toy en odying my invention. Fig. 9, is a top plan of the toy. Fig. 3 is a, side view of a form of rod adapted to be med in conjunction with the toy, and Fig. 4b. is an enlarged fragmentary view, showing the form of trigger used in the device.

The toy gun,or device has abarrel 10, and integrally formed upon one end of said barrel, or made separately and connected thereto, is a handle 11 both of which may be made of any suitable material and of any size in preferably ashape to imitate apistol, or gun, as illustrated, though it will be understood that the device may be produced in other shapes, if desired. The barrel 10 lsformed so that its top portion extends a slight distance above the handle 11, and the upper part of saidhandle is shaped so as to provide an extension, as 12, which is disposed on a diiier'ent relative plane to the top edge of the barrel. In the top of the barrel 10 is acontinuous slot 13 extending longitudinally throughout the lengths thereof, and the end of said barrel at its juncture with the extension 12 is slightly tapered or rounded, to provide a retaining portion, or seat 14. At the juncture of the barrel with the stock, or handle, there is provided a counter-sunken ortion of the slot 13 to admit the forward arm of the "IF-shaped trigger 18, and in the top edge of the extension 12, is provided a slot upon the same relative plane as the counter-sunken portion to admit the rear arm of the trigger 18, so that the top surface of the T-shaped trigger is in the same plane with the base of the slot of the barrel 10. Through the barrel 10 as Well as through the handle 11 at the intersection of these parts, is a vertically disposed opening 15 which communicates with the slot 13 of said barrel and the slot of the extension 12.

In the free end of the barrel 10 is a transverse slot and a communicating opening 16, and in said opening is held part of a propelling element, or elastic band 17 which is preferably made of rubber. The elastic band 1 17 is adapted to be guided in a direction so as to be stretched longitudinally of the barrel and removably held upon the retaining portion, or seat 1 1 so that when released the elasticity of the band will cause it to be projected beyond the free end of the barrel without being released therefrom for strilring a fly, or other object at which the device is sighted. When the elastic band 17 is thus arranged for charging the device and serving to release said band so as to be shot similarly to manipulating a gun, ll provide a trigger, as 18. llhe trigger 18 has Gil a body portion 19 which is approximately the shape of a T whereby three arms 20 and 21 and 23 are provided. The arm 20 of the body portion 19- of the trigger is disposed in the slot 13 of the barrel 10, and its free end is pivoted, at 22, to said barrel. The arm 21 of the body portion of the trigger is movably guided through the opening 15 of the barrel and handle 11. The arm 21 is of a length to extend some distance from the underside of the handle, and this arm is slightly curved, as shown, so that it may be conveniently gripped by a finger of the person using the device.

Extending from the body portion 19 of the trigger in an opposite direct-ion to the arm 20, and on alinement therewith, is a releasing member, orthird arm, as 23, and upon the top edge of said third arm at its juncture with the body 19 is a curved extension, or hump, as 23. The releasing arm 23 is movably disposed in the slot of the extension 12 of the handle 11 so that when the elastic band 17 is engaged upon the seat 14:, as above described, and when the arm 21 of the trigger 18 is pulled the third arm 23 thereof will be swung upwardly in an are so that it will contactavith and release the elastic band from its seat whereby its-elasticity will cause it to be projected. By pivoting the trigger, as shown, it is evident that when the engagement with the finger is released it will of its own weight return to itsnormal position for further use. In this manner children, or other persons may be encouraged in the destruction of flies, or other similar insects, but when the device is employed mainly for amusement, I rovide a rod, or projectile, as 24:. The r or projectile .24: may be of any suitable shape, or size to adapt it to be removably seated in the slot 13' of the barrel 10, as shown in Fig. 1, and said rod may then be propelled by the elastic band 17 contacting with one end thereof when the gun is charged and shot-ofi', as heretofore explained. If the projectile or rod' 24: is used, provision is made for elevating the rear end thereof from contact with the barrel, so that the rod may be in contact with the gun at two points only, namely at the muzzle and at the stock. This is accomplished by means of the slight projection 23*, upon the uppersurfaoe of the T-shaped trigger, which engages the lower surface of the rear end of therod 24:, and raises it as the arm 23 of the trigger 18 is elevated as required for releasing the elastic band from its seat for projecting the same.

In the foregoing description, I have embodied the preferred form of my invention, but Ido not Wish to be understood as limiting myself thereto, as I am aware that modifications may be made therein Without departing from the principle, or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention, therefore I reserve to myself the right to make such changes as fairly fall within thescope thereof.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a toy gun having a slotted barrel, and a stock with a transverse opening therethrough, and having a vertical opening communicating with the transverse opening and the slot of the barrel, an elastic hand disposed in a slot in the lower end portion of the muzzle of the barrel, and a retaining shoulder at the stock over which the said band may be stretched, said slot of the barrel having a counter-sunken portion communicating with the vertical opening in the stock, an extension at the juncture of the stock with the barrel, said extension having a slot upon the same plane as the countersunken portion of the slot of the barrel, and communicating with said vertical opening; the combination of a substantially T-shaped trigger, said trigger having one of its arms disposed downwardly throu h the vertical opening of the stock and pro1ecting into the transverse opening, and having its forward upper arm pivoted in the counter-sunken portion of the slot of the barrel, and its rear upper arm movably disposed in the slot in the extension of the barrel so that the top surfaces of the alined upper arms will be on alinement with the base of the slot of the barrel, said third arm serving to'raise and release the band from its seat as required to discharge the gun.

2. In a toy gun having aslotted barrel, and a handle with a transverse openin therethrough, and a vertical opening whic communicates withthe transverse openlng and also communicates with the slot of the barrel, said slot being provided with acounter-sunken portion communicating with the vertical opening, an extension at the rear of the barrel and at the juncture with the handle, said extension having a slot provided therein upon the same plane as the counter-sunken portion of the slot in the barrel; the combination of a substantially T shaped trigger having one of its upper arms pivotally secured in the counter-sunken portion of the slot, the opposing arm being on alinement with the first arm and movably disposed in the slot of said extension so that it may be swung upwardly in the arc of a circle, and the third arm extending downwardly from the first and second 'arm through the vertical opening into the transverse opening, whereby the second arm may be swung upwardly when the third arm is pulled, and an elastic' hand held to the muzzle of the barrel, a retaining shoulder at the breech of the barrel, said band being projectile may be raised from contact with adapted to be stretched over the retaining the barrel. 19

shoulder so as to be released from said This specification signed and witnessed shoulder by the upward movement of the this eleventh day of November, A. D. 1912? 5 second arm ofthe trigger, whereby the band AARON WOOD HAMAKER.

may be projected, said trigger having a pro- Witnesses: jection upon its upper edge for contact with Rom. B. ABBOTT,

a projectile whereby the rear end of the M. DERMODY. 

